None of it seems to work. And because of it an episode like
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S37 - Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (2013-2014)\Movie[PocketUniverse] Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Returns 100 YEARS AFTER (1080p BluRay).mkv
Gets added to Season 1 as “episode 100” even though there are only 84 actual episodes. A “specials” season gets added while i there shouldn’t be, and none of the titles match…
If the movies are listed as specials, you could assign them to the Specials season (or Season 00). If they’re not… you could still add them to an actual movie library and assign them as well as the show(s) to a same-named collection. That way they’ll show up as related content.
(2013-2014) Any dates in Plex should only be the beginning date and this is generally reserved for the show folder, not season folder. (2013) may be ok idk, never tried it
Movie[PocketUniverse] <–shouldn’t exist
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Returns 100 YEARS AFTER <–Has no s01e01 format at all
(1080p Bluray) <–should be contained in square brackets not parenthesis [1080p Bluray]
Despite these problems, there is NO correct naming convention and folder structure to put a movie in a TV type library
In a movie library properly named (TMDB, TVDB, and IMDB)
And just so you’re aware, Tom knows more about this than you, me and filebot combined so you should probably just take his word for it
If you’re interested in trying out outsmart the scanner with tweaks and workarounds, you’re probably going to consume a lot of time with not such great results
That’s because the plex forum isn’t showing it correctly perhaps. That title is in the \Movie\ subfolder i’m trying to exclude, it is NOT in the main season folder. That’s the whole point of this post, until i know where i want to keep them when they’re properly named. It’s a movie, not an episode! I said the episodes were properly named. I said nothing about the movies being properly named. Its still named that way cause i couldn’t properly rename it with filebot, couldn’t find a match for it. I’ll have to manually rename it.
I’m not trying to outsmart anything, please don’t make that assumption as its a baseless accusation, and just plain wrong. I’m trying to exclude the \Movie folder\ and no matter what i enter in the .plexignore file, the \Movie folder isn’t being excluded. No more, no less. If it were being properly excluded, it wouldn’t show up in season 1 where it doesn’t belong.
**/Movie/* should work for that particular file. The ** basically says “check in any level of subfolder,” so you end up with “Ignore all files that are in a ‘Movie’ folder at any level”.
No dice. Title still listed under S01 and “Specials” season still exists
#Negeer complete folders
**/Extras/*
**/Movie/*
**/Movies/*
**/Specials/*
**/Crossovers/*
Tried both "refresh metadata" and "analyze" via the main show options.
Note the .plexignore file is in the show root if that matters.
@Ch3vr0n On the right you can see 5 episodes of GOT, 1-3, as well as “100” and “101”. In the upper left I go through the “Game of Thrones” folders and show that “episodes” 100 and 101 live inside of a Movie folder at two different depths (‘ShowFolder/Movie’ and ‘ShowFolder/Season 01/Movie’). In the bottom right is the .plexignore file that lives in the library root. As soon as I uncomment **/Movie/* and rescan the library, “episodes” 100 and 101 disappear on the right. I then re-comment the line in the .plexignore file, scan the library again, and the two “Movie” episodes appear again.
That link is weird. I had to enable fullscreen for it to show properly. You see i noticed 2 things
your .plexignore isn’t in the show root, so that nullifies your test. Mine is in the show root
what’s that rightclick “scan plex files” in your context menu. I want it
The following has been tried with “Series library scan” after each change without success.
S01 still has 86 “episodes” where it should only have 84 (2 entries shouldn’t be there)
.plexignore is in \Super Sentai directory root
Problematic file(path)
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S37 - Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (2013)\Movie\[PocketUniverse] Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Returns 100 YEARS AFTER (1080p BluRay).mkv
/*Movie/* <= no dice
*/*Movie/* <= no dice
**Movie/*
/**Movie/*
Other files have “duplicate” entries because the “Movie” and “Specials” folder arent being excluded. The following entries are all under S01E01
\\?\J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S42 - Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger (2018-2019)\Specials\Season 42a - Super Sentai Strongest Battle (2019)\Super Sentai Strongest Battle - S01E01 - Battle 1 Who is the Strongest in History!.mkv
Delete Files
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S35 - Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011-2012)\Super Sentai - S01E01 - The Crimson Sun! The Invincible Gorangers.mkv
Delete Files
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S01 - Himitsu Sentai Goranger (1975-1977)\Movie\Super Sentai - S01E01 - The Crimson Sun! The Invincible Gorangers.mkv
Delete Files
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S36 - Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters (2012-2013)\Specials\Season 36a - Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger (2012)\Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger - S01E01 - Pain is Power.mkv
Delete Files
J:\Plex Libraries\Series\Super Sentai\S01 - Himitsu Sentai Goranger (1975-1977)\Super Sentai - S01E01 - The Crimson Sun! The Invincible Gorangers.mkv
Why is this so goddamn hard. Advanced or not, if it’s documented, it should work as advertised.
using square brackets is not an option. This is a show with 46 seasons. Each season has specials and movies awaiting manual renaming. In the mean time i need to exclude them.
your .plexignore isn’t in the show root, so that nullifies your test. Mine is in the show root
I thought it wouldn’t matter, but you’re right. It works fine when in the library root, but the same file in the show root will ignore ‘ShowFolder/Movie/*’, but not ‘ShowFolder/Season X/Movie/*’. Seems like a bug versus intended behavior. Moving/copying the .plexignore file into the individual season folder works (Movie/*), though it’s a bit more annoying if there are a bunch of different seasons you want to have items ignored in. Or, if you don’t have any real episodes in any of your shows with those subfolder names, you could move the .plexignore file to your library root.
what’s that rightclick “scan plex files” in your context menu. I want it
That doesn’t list the one that does work at the library-root level (**/Movie/*), though it probably doesn’t matter since I couldn’t get it to work at the show-level.
If this is in reference to ScanInPlex, it’s specifically for Windows. There are some “from scratch” instructions that goes over installing Python and the initial setup of the script here: ‘Scan in Plex’ for Windows Context Menu.
As for reporting, it may be “by design”, since the support article states, “If you add the “.plexignore” file to the root (top-level) folder in the content location, the ignore rules will apply to all sub-folders,” which seems to imply that any non-top-level .plexignore files only work against files/folders that are in the same folder as .plexignore. If that assumption is correct, it might best fit as a feature suggestion to support globstar matching at all subdirectory levels, not just the root folder.
